Acadia Climate Data Dashboard Project
This site is for downloading Acadia National Park climate data and associated data compiling and cleaning scripts. This data is used in the Acadia Climate Data R Shiny Dashboard. Cleaning scripts only require the input of the downloaded datasets to run in R.
Data Download
Data compiling and cleaning script: nClimGrid Daily Script
Data compiling and cleaning script: nClimGrid Monthly Script
Data download requires cleaning scripts by Kyle Lima that build off Kate Miller’s climateNETN package (climateNETN).
Data cleaning script: Climate Data Cleaning Function
The data exporting process for McFarland Hill data can be initiated at the link provided by inputting the desired time period of the data, selecting the site (ACAD-MH Acadia National Park McFarland Hill), and parameter intervals and parameters available for that time period. Then, the corresponding dataset with those specifications can be exported and downloaded as a .csv.
The data cleaning R script above can be downloaded and used to help clean McFarland Hill data; the McFarland Hill dataset will simply need to be pulled in using the file path corresponding to where it’s downloaded or kept in your files.Data cleaning script: Climate Data Cleaning Function
The data exporting process for SERC data can be initiated at the link provided by clicking “Download Data” in the left hand panel. At that site, you can immediately download station data a day at a time, create a MesoWest account to download a year of data at a time, or use Synoptic Data API Services to download larger amounts of data. At Synoptic Data API Services, you must first make an account to access its services. Then station data can be downloaded by going to “Data Services” to access the “Data Download Tool”; there, you can click “New Download” where you can choose the station you’d like to download from (SERC station ID: D2258) and the desired time period and variables. Clicking “Request Data” will process your request and bring you to a page where you can download the dataset as a .csv.
The data cleaning R script above can be downloaded and used to help clean SERC station data; the SERC dataset will simply need to be pulled in using the file path corresponding to where it’s downloaded or kept in your files.
Data cleaning script: Sea Level Data Cleaning Function
Both monthly and annual sea level trend data can be downloaded at the link provided by clicking “Download monthly mean sea level data” or “Download annual mean sea level data”. This will bring you to a .txt file version of the data which can be downloaded by right clicking the page and selecting “Save as…” to save the file to where you’d like in your files.
The data cleaning R script above can be downloaded and used to help clean Bar Harbor, Frenchman Bay, ME Station data from this source; the downloaded datasets will simply need to be pulled in using the file paths corresponding to where they are downloaded or kept in your files.